Dr. Taweesak questions who determined the 2026 election procedures after the public expressed strong dissatisfaction with the very low quality, including issues with barcoded ballots and the handling of ballot boxes.
On 13 Feb 2026 GMT+7, Dr. Taweesak Koranantakul, former director of the National Science and Technology Development Agency, posted: “I want to record Thailand’s situation after the election to prevent forgetting.”
Thailand is facing a crisis regarding regulatory agencies. The public is very dissatisfied with the low quality. Looking upward, there is suspicion about the appointing authorities; looking downward, an investigation is needed into who directs those on the ground to use such unusual methods.
Citizens nationwide are investigating who established the procedures for ballot handling and counting like this, and whether the Election Commission violated any laws by prescribing these methods.
1) The insertion of ballot numbers as bar codes that trace back to the ballot stub signed by the voter.
2) The management of ballot boxes from polling stations to counting locations and storage.
3) The presence of paper ballot boxes bearing the Election Commission’s logo and cable ties with the Election Commission’s seal being sold openly in the general market.
4) The creation of ballot marking sheets where the marks are invisible—this is considered the most serious issue.
5) Significant discrepancies in the number of district representative ballots and party-list ballots in many units, despite using the same process and voters depositing ballots into two boxes simultaneously; in many units, the sum of counted votes exceeds the number of valid ballots.
6) Voter turnout appears lower than in the previous election (2023) even though the overall atmosphere in constituencies showed no decrease in voters.
7) If votes are recounted nationwide, are the stored ballots truly the ones on which citizens voted?
8) The Election Commission’s data system allows certain individuals to directly alter numbers in the database; this is strictly prohibited in IT practices.
9) If a new count is conducted, bar codes should be used to trace back any suspicious ballot bundles to the original stub signed by voters; if not found, the head of the polling station responsible should be penalized.
10) Conduct analytics on phantom ballots to determine if they favor any particular party or are random, indicating no fraud.
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